Zoo In China Claims That Its Bears Are Not Actually Humans In Costumes After Eery Video Goes Viral Of Them Standing And Waving

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Blake Seidel • Managing Editor & Brand Manager
Aug 4, 2023 11:00 AM EDT

Usually, we would throw this kind of animal news in the trash, but the more you watch the video, the more you doubt if what you're seeing is real or not. The eerie video in question shows a video of a sun bear in a Chinese zoo standing up on its hind legs and waving at zoo members. The bear looks weirdly saggy and strangely comfortable on its two hind legs. So comfortable, it almost looks human.

Bears are silly by nature, and them standing up or waving is nothing totally out of the ordinary, but we can't shake the feeling that something is weird about this video. The zoo even took to Twitter and publicly denied the allegations brought against the zoo and the bear. We're not sure what to think, but what about you? Is it a real bear? Or a human in a bear costume?

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    Organism - BINIS CHINESE ZOO IS FORCED TO DENY ITS BEARS ARE HUMANS IN COSTUME
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    Look at that! It's so strange. It looks so comfortable on two legs, waving like everyone else. We can't shake the feeling that something is up here, although bears do love to wave for food.

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    Font - insidehistory Swipe A zoo in #China has refused to grin and bear it after video of one of its bears standing on its hind legs went viral — forcing officials to deny it was a human in a costume Hangzhou #Zoo addressed the wild allegations in a statement pretending to be from Angela, the Malaysian sun bear seen standing up and staring at bemused-looking visitors.
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    Font - Officials also said that a human inside a fuzzy costume would never survive summer temps soaring to more than 100 degrees. What do y'all think!?
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    Think about the people in costumes at Disney Land or something, though. They regularly go out in the park in 100+ degrees and they're okay. It's not so farfetched. We think it's a human in a costume!

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    Smile - _dom.s Exactly what a human in a bear costume would say 11h 2,745 likes Reply
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    Font - littlewitchxoxo Horrific living conditions, animals shouldn't be used as entertainment 11h 1,388 likes Reply
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    Font - baraaniisavan Its communist China. If authority say its bear, its bear 11h 1,057 likes Reply
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    Font - Igrace118 a round of appawse for this unbearable disguise 11h 433 likes Reply
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    Font - YiCai Yicai Global 第一财经 @yicaichina : This is a real bear, not a human dressed in costumes! A four-year-old Malayan sun bear named Angela in a Hangzhou zoo went viral on China's social media as a video showed the world's smallest bear standing upright and waving to tourists just like a human.
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    Font - mike bailey @jeepers58. 1h Hooman no doubt
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    Font - Giggsy @Triggage - 15h Can confirm that they are real bears. While there we had a pleasant conversation, Papa Bear was amazed that people were doubting his authenticity.
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    Font - Shin @Shin98989589 2h Is he hailing a taxi?
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